Compound fabric.



PATENTED MAY 24, 1904.

P. B. UEBEL. COMPOUND FABRIC. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 24, 190 3.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH BERNHARD UEBEL, OF PLAUEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM OF GEBRI IDER UEBEL, OF PLAUEN, GERMANY.

COMPOUND FABRIC;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,051, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed Angus. 24,1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH BERNHARD UEBEL, a subject of the King of Saxony,whose post office address is No. 19 'Weststrasse, Plauen, Vogtland, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire, have invented a new and useful Compound Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

The article known in the trade as sparterie is composed of an upper textile made in the form of matting and a support for the same consisting of muslin, to which the former is fastened by suitable agglutinants. Up to this invention the said matting has been made with strips of esparto, halfa, wood, or straw, and owing to this mode of manufacture the matting could be produced with a very limited size only. This limited size involves a considerable waste in cutting the blanks for figured articles; and it is the object of the grezlsient invention to do away with this draw- To this end the present invention, as illustrated by six examples of executional forms on the annexed sheet of drawings, consists in a compound fabric composed of atextile layer of the muslin type forming the base, support, or backing m and a second textile made as a matting with strips If, each of which is composed by a number of individual threads arranged closely side by side at the upper part of the support m, the matting being pasted to Serial No. 170,627. (Specimens) the backing by means of a suitable agglutinant. As those threads can be of any desired length and even of unlimited length, the fabric is enabled to be manufactured with a greater breadth than heretofore and with any desired length. The most important advantage of this new fabric is that in using the same for making figured articlessuch as hats, bonnets, caps, and the likethe blanks are enabled to be cut with considerably less waste, as projecting portions of one blank can be placed in corresponding receding portions of other blanks.

- What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

FRIEDRICH BERNHARD UEBEL.

Witnesses:

A. PETZOLD, (J. L. SIEGER'I. 

